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Commercial: A&P Netherlands "Good News Every Day"

A&P was one of the most successful and well-known supermarket chains in the Netherlands up until the early 2000's. On the internet, there is nothing about A&P being in the Netherlands at all-- except for this commercial, and a list of supermarket chains in the Netherlands on Wikipedia. This is an exclusive look inside of an A&P in the Netherlands.

In the commercial you see an obvious resemblance of the Fresh 1.0 decor's Canvas Boxes we all know. Was A&P's Netherlands stores the inspiration for the Fresh series? This commercial aired in 1995. The first Fresh store opened in Denville, New Jersey in 2004, almost ten years later.

I roughly translated this commercial, here's what is said:

Good Evening!

This week at A&P, Coca-Cola, Fanta, or Sprite, three 1.5 liter bottles of your choice for only $4.75.

(saying to anchor) We can share! A&P Chips for only $0.79.

(saying to co-anchor) They're mine.

If anyone can get a better translation, please do! I'd love to have a better understanding of this commercial.

Update: I contacted the Tengelmann
Group (A&P Parent Company) in Germany, and they said that A&P never officially had stores in the
Netherlands. Tengelmann licensed the name to a Dutch supermarket company
and wore it as its carcass until the early 2000’s, when it was sold to another
supermarket company.

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